The high seas are scarcely prepared.
Yet that strife scarcely prepared her for the chaos of the last few years.
But it could scarcely prepare me for the texture and flavor, the sheer dailiness, of life at the court.
But Mr. Hubbert's observation scarcely prepares one for Miss Redgrave's striking transformation into Miss Amelia, the protagonist in McCullers's bizarre fable.
This exchange scarcely prepared Witness for the shock of seeing Badu, a few days later, at the front door of his house the same house where he had once watched her on television.
He was so changed from the haunted, agonized man I had seen in Miller's 1986 film that I was scarcely prepared for the dapper, bubbling figure who opened the door when Deborah and I went to visit him in the summer of 2005.
Kassovitz's amusing debut film, "Cafe au Lait," an up-to-the minute romantic comedy involving an interracial menage-a-trois, in which Kounde also appeared, scarcely prepares you for the scalding "Hate" with its bold, even flashy style; Pierre Aim is Kassovitz's can-do-anything cinematographer.
Lawyers who spend their workdays preparing privacy-related notices freely admit that scarcely anyone reads them.
This is scarcely subtle, but it prepares us for the rest of the production (which will be performed on Saturday afternoon and broadcast live in high-definition to movie theaters around the world).
But while other judges would need to spend hours preparing written instructions to juries, Judge Greene would charge them with scarcely a note.
The mood scarcely improved even when in the final Brazil beat Spain, the current world champion.A four-hour flight south from Manaus, Rio de Janeiro is preparing not only for seven World Cup games, including the final, but also the 2016 Olympics.
